Expanding the TLC Assess

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In response to several recent questions on the list regarding use of the assessment with younger children and some on and off the list regarding other issues, let me pull together answers from a number of e-mails previously sent.

First, the TLC Assess is designed to be a time and cost-efficient tool that can be used to get a great deal of the important (from a training point of view) information you might get from a Q. Many of you who have run assessments on clients who have already done Q's have told me that you were impressed with the registration between the two. As a general run on a client, the TLC Assess can go a long way toward answering the critical trainer's questions: where do I put the leads and what do I train up and down.

As I teach in the Trainer's Practicum, there are a number of ways you can adapt the tool to your own more specific uses.

1. You can "drill down" by running additional sites in a specific area and loading them into a new assessment (e.g. run tasks at Fp1 and Fp2, F7 and F8 and F3 and F4 and load their data into the frontal, temporal and central areas to give you a "close-up" view of the frontal lobes)

2. You can switch tasks and re-run or run the assessment (part or all) using right-sided or non-verbal tasks to see how the brain responds, if you have concerns over possible non-verbal learning problems..

3. You can look at the Brain Mirror display before running the assessment, looking for alpha with eyes open and closed. When you have identified the client's alpha band (by watching for the frequency that activates strongly with eyes closed and drops strongly with eyes open), then you can re-define the frequency bands in the Set Up. Instead of using 8-12 Hz for alpha, you might set it at 7-9 Hz for a young child, changing Lobeta to 10-13, theta to 3-7, etc. Then go ahead and run the assessment and load it into the TLC Assess.

Hope this helps make the tool more useful.

Pete

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